Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I wanna’ know where the dude in the blue sportscoat has his right hand.
Just curious!
Really tough duty. Somebody’s gotta do it though.
gives the phrase “saluting the fan tail” a whole new meaning.
*humph*
…just…
*humph*
What’s with the top lights being blue?
It’s even more chalenging when they fly the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders out to you near the BIOT to show how much they appreciate your sacrifices during the middle of the cruise.
Toss in it was before women were aboard deploying ships and that the staff picked you to have to attend the dinner in the Admiral’s mess….
Sim, when they’re turned on, I think you’ll find that the bottom third of the lights are red, completing that “Reaganesque” look.
Curt – good thing we have that endless supply of cold water for the showers then, yah?
Is the Captain of Reagan the same Terry from Survivor?
Different whole Terry, that was Terry Dietz. Callsign “Meathead,” by the way, and one of my students in flight school.
Good fellah, tremendous ball player. Kind of a rock.
I looked and looked, but didn’t find a single sweaty 290 lb. lineman anywhere in this photo; a great example of a “discretionary target.”